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The move, which defies a UN recommendation, means potentially locking up even more young people.

Those who worked with Kamala Harris when she was San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general say her approach to being a prosecutor was nuanced and defies labels.

Believe it, because the Mets believe it, just like the San Diego Padres were forced into believing it, even though it refutes history and defies description.

“It defies what’s happening outside the four corners of this courtroom.”

Three months later, they were spotted on a windowsill in the winter by ecologist Daisy Cadet and her mother Ashleigh in what scientists have described as an "improbable event" that "defies rational explanation".